Vasily Vasilyevich Mate (russian: Василий Васильевич Матэ; – ), or Mathé, was a

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artist and engraver. While he was not the author of any major original works, he was one of the major engravers in Russia during the late 19th century. He collaborated with major Russian painters and produced engravings of their paintings, thus helping popularize

Russian art Russian culture (russian: Культура России, Kul'tura Rossii) has been formed by the nation's history, its geographical location and its vast expanse, religious and social traditions, and Western influence. Russian writers and ph ...

Selected paintings

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Timofey Granovsky Timofey Nikolayevich Granovsky (russian: link=no, Тимофей Николаевич Грановский; 9 March 1813 – 4 October 1855) was a founder of mediaeval studies in the Russian Empire. Granovsky was born in Oryol, Russia. He studied ...

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Alexander Serov Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Серо́в, Saint Petersburg, – Saint Petersburg, ) was a Russian composer and music critic. He is notable as one of the most important music critics in ...

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Pavel Tretyakov Pavel Mikhaylovich Tretyakov (russian: Па́вел Миха́йлович Третьяко́в; 27 December 1832 – 16 December 1898) was a Russian businessman, patron of art, collector, and philanthropist who gave his name to the Tretyakov Ga ...

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Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

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Vasily Karazin Vasily Nazarovich Karazin (russian: Васи́лий Наза́рович Кара́зин; ukr, Василь Назарович Каразін; 30 January 1773 – 4 November 1842) was a Russian and Ukrainian Enlightenment figure, intellectual ...

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Dmitry Rovinsky Dmitry Aleksandrovich Rovinsky (russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Рови́нский; - 23 June 1895) was an art historian and compiler of reference albums on Russian portraits and engravings of the 18th to 19th centuries. ...

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* 1856 births 1917 deaths 19th-century engravers 20th-century engravers Russian engravers Imperial Academy of Arts alumni Full Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts {{printmaker-stub